Posted on 12/11/2019 8:23:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve witnessed a cultural transformation wherein people describe themselves in terms of how they “identify.” It’s common to hear men say they “identify as a woman” or in some extreme cases to hear a Caucasian person identify as black.
However, no amount of identifying as a woman will make a man have a period. No amount of identifying as a woman will allow a man to grow or birth a child. Identifying as a woman makes a man a woman as much as my identifying as a 2-year-old makes me a toddler. Our identity and our reality are the same, as much as we may try to make it otherwise.
Sadly, the notion that reality is what we make it is the new status quo of the radical Left - a small but loud, and often vitriolic, minority. And the rest of us have two options: go along with this new status quo or stand firmly in truth and objective reality. Generally, the first option is easier; those who go along with the new rules will have the imprimatur of the Hollywood elite, mainstream media, and academic elites. Those who maintain that identifying as something doesn’t necessarily alter reality will face the ire of those who call themselves progressive.
It’s important to note, as we navigate these waters, that the new standard of, ‘you are what you identify as,’ isn’t applied consistently. When Leftist stalwart Elizabeth Warren identified as a Native American, for instance, few people questioned or challenged her claim. But once a DNA test and her inability to document tribal affiliation with any Native American group proved conclusively that she is not what she had always “identified as,” no one -- not even Warren -- continued to claim that she was Native American. There wasn’t even a discussion about Warren continuing to identify as such after that moment.
But when it comes to sex, the standard changes radically. For example, I’ve been blowing the minds of my student audiences lately any time I state that pregnancy is a possible outcome of sex between a man and a woman. This simple biological fact has elicited outrage from students, like this one, who are offended but can’t provide evidence that my statement is factually untrue. Leftist ideology has become so pervasive in our culture and institutions that biology itself is now offensive to students.
What are the rest of us to do? If it’s discriminatory to object to Leftist ideology with facts and biology, is it, conversely, compassionate to play along and abide what we know to be untrue? Especially when we believe this ideology to be, in some cases, harmful?
I don’t think it is. I believe we have to speak the truth whether or not the truth is popular. It is not compassionate when we pretend that reality and biology are malleable. It is not compassionate to tell a man that he is indeed a woman. Because, in the end, it is only the truth that will set us free. Often the truth is hard, and that is what compassion is for. It is for helping our fellow humans through the trials imposed by reality -- trials that we all face. It is not compassionate to help them to ignore the realities that will inevitably come around to call.
In my own life, biological reality is very hard to accept on a day-to-day basis. Two of my four children have cystic fibrosis. I wish they didn’t. I wish their lungs were as healthy as my other two children’s. But it wouldn’t be compassionate for my kids’ doctors to tell my family that Gunner and Gracie don’t have cystic fibrosis. Because the biological reality is that they do. And their doctors show compassion and human support when they say, “The reality is that your children have this disease; but we are going to walk alongside you and navigate these difficult waters together.”
Likewise, when men and women suffer from gender dysphoria, it is not compassionate for the rest of us to tell them that their bodies are not the biological sex that they clearly are. It is compassionate for us to come alongside our friends and family who are suffering, just as we would a friend or family member suffering from any other condition of the body or mind and figure out how we can help them through the difficulty.
What I wish that students knew and took time to consider before protesting me on college campuses is that I do my best to speak the truth out of love, not hatred. I know that what I say is often hard to hear. I know that it is counter-cultural to some people. But I say it because I believe the truth has power, and that compassion is informed by and rooted in the truth.
I identify as a billionaire. Now, if only I can get others to identify me as a billionaire, I can get that Ferrari.
We live in a post-Clinton, post-Bush, post-Obama era. The Progressive viewpoint is the Establishment viewpoint. A lot of young people want to be "cool" and rebel. They want to "speak truth to power". They want to be part of the counter-culture.
But they are not. They are supporting the Establishment and they are just nodding their heads in agreement whenever some established Progressive tells them how they ought to think about something.
The only real counter-cultural people around today are Christian Conservatives. You know: like Trump.
Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind https://youtu.be/b0l3QWUXVho
A huge number of college students today are totally screwed up in the head. I’m betting that it is because of the conflict with what they know to be true, and what they have been forced to believe by the colleges.
It’s true. The truth sets people free.
You just need to get the bank to identify you as a billionaire.
When a man says he feels he is actually a woman, how does he know what it feels like to be a woman? He doesn’t. More likely he has same sex attraction and is in denial of his faggotry. Ergo, he must really be a woman. Likewise a woman who feels she is a man. They can’t know, therefore they are delusional.
My dear brother who died in 1984 had ducennes muscular dystrophy
Throughout my young life I was around many many children who had all kinds of retardation and handicaps - they did not talk about any of the current terms like autism or anything back then
In short, if you have a healthy body and healthy mind , you should feel very fortunate in this life
Those that are older and past prime in this life realize that every day to the body still works as a gift
So two handicap one self with gender dysphoria self-mutilation we’re always things in this life when you’ve been given such a gift is a tremendous failure on the part of the person ruining their own life
What they need to do is to open their eyes and look around at this world and think “how can I help others?” rather than “poor me”
It’s a wonderful life is a beautiful movie this time of year
‘I identify as a billionaire.’
I believe in getting money the old way; earning it...therefore, I identify as a 25 year old black man topping out at 7 feet tall, with arms like tree trunks, and I’m looking forward to earning my dough in the NBA...
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